Madelynn

#524 in 2025Girls' name

Blend of Madeleine and Lynn

Madelynn has been given to 18,937 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #524 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 862 recorded.

Babies named Madelynn, 2025

1 in 5,790

Madelynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madelynn: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Madeleine and Lynn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madelynn means

Madelynn is a blend of Madeleine and Lynn.

Origin, language, and formation

Madelynn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madeleine and Lynn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18,937 girls were recorded with the name Madelynn between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 862 in 2009; its best national rank was #375 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #481 in 2020 to #524 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #418 in 2015 to #524 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Madelynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 5,790; 573 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 2,800; 0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025: #524; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 4,011 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Madelynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 1002%

School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,011 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madelynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madelynn was born before 2012 — so the typical Madelynn is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 87.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 18,785; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (7,322).

Is Madelynn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −6; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −43; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −106; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.74×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 66.5%; Peak was 2009 (862)
Years since peak: 16; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 6.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #375; 2009

Spellings of Madelynn

Madelynn is not the most common spelling — Madeline is, with 33.1% against Madelynn's 3.0%.

Madeline33.1%207,385
Madelyn18.5%116,010
Raelynn5.5%34,671
Adalynn5.5%34,210
Katelynn4.9%30,680
Madilyn3.8%23,632
Adelyn3.8%23,612
Madalyn3.7%23,222

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Madelynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Madelynn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,020 girls, against 1 in 2,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 5,882).

1798 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1West Virginia1 in 1,020
2Kentucky1 in 1,124
3Indiana1 in 1,370
4Kansas1 in 1,408
5Wisconsin1 in 1,429
6Tennessee1 in 1,471
7Alabama1 in 1,563
8Mississippi1 in 1,563

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Madelynn is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 16% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Madelynn around the world

Where Madelynn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2006–2024
#5,892
in 2024
Canada
1995–2024
#889
in 2024
South Australia
1947–2013
#403
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Madelynn

People whose public names include Madelynn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Madelynn BernauSport shooter
b. 1998

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Madelynn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 43
Best rank ever: #375; 2009
Peak year: 2009; 862 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 18,937
Count in 2025: 573

Names similar to Madelynn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Madilynn Madalynn Madisynn Maddilynn Maddison Madisyn Madalyn Madilyn Madyson Madaline Kaitlynn Madonna Marilynn Madeleine Madlynn Madelyne Katelynn Braelynn Madisson Madisen Evelynn Adelynn Jocelynn Ashlynn

Names with a curve like Madelynn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Madelynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Jazlyn Fernanda Ainsley Elle Rylie Dayana Miracle Jimena Kennedi Melany Itzel Skyla

Sibling names for Madelynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Fernanda Jazlyn Emely Kamryn Aniyah Rylie Lilian Izabella

For a brother

Dorian Jamari Tyson Izaiah Uriel Caiden Rocco Quinn

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